“If your horse is lame in his shoulder, take off his shoes… Young and
inexperienced practitioners are quite too apt to commit the error of
overlooking the examination of the foot, looking upon it as a matter of
secondary importance, and attending to it as a routine and formal affair
only.”

“Lameness is therefore not so much an original evil, a disease per se,
as it is a symptom and manifestation of some antecedent vital physical
lesion, either isolated or complicated, affecting oneor several parts of the locomotive
apparatus.”